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Toast the Holidays
with a book!
 

Unwrap stories of women long ago.

Fall in love with new young women poets. Never look at a pencil the same way.

In 240 pages, A Pencil Grows in Kentucky weaves together listening lessons,  creative writing lessons, and true stories of amazing Appalachian women of Kentucky. Best of all, the book features the powerful poetry of 70 young women from her Appalachia Girl Dreaming workshop.

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An inspiring read for dreamers of all ages.

$14.95​​​

Available at Court Street Gifts in downtown Winchester, KY.

Every dollar from this book purchase goes directly to Why We Write to help us

create more free writing programs.

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Thanks to Shade Hatmaker, our cover artist!

Camp Photos = 1,000 words

 Students Listen

Image of school children with Jacqueline Hamilton, Executive Director, and our blue sea turtle stuffed animal

Our camp director Mizz JJ loves to visit schools and read stories she has written.  A group of students at Strode Station Elementary School in Winchester, enjoyed her story Ocean Eyes about a blue sea turtle.

Writers are

shell-ebrities

A photo of our blue stuffed animal sea turte.
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